CLUSTERED BELLFLOWER
Campanula glomerata
Bellflower [Campanulaceae] 
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Bellflower [Campanulaceae]
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| 14th July 2007, St Cyrus, Scotland. | Photo: © Pam Murden |
| Growing amidst Lady's Bedstraw in grassland. |
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| 14th July 2007, St Cyrus, Scotland. | Photo: © Pam Murden's Daughter |
| The flower head is clustered; the individual flowers being stalkless. |
| 11th July 2011, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Bucks. | Photo: © Phil And Ann Farrer |
| Flowers clustered together jostling each other to point skywards. |
| 11th July 2011, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Bucks. | Photo: © Phil And Ann Farrer |
| Petals are long, cut to half-way and arched like church windows to a 90° point. They have a creased fold down the centre-line more in evidence when petals not fully splayed out. |
| 14th July 2007, St Cyrus, Scotland. | Photo: © Pam Murden |
A 'cluster' can be as few as just one flower, when it has been mistaken for a Gentian, but the leaves are different, being in opposite pairs in Gentians. Here there are only seven in the cluster. The flowers are coloured mauve, being much a deeper colour than Harebell. |
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| 14th July 2007, St Cyrus, Scotland. | Photo: © Pam Murden's Daughter |
| The five petals curve outwards to a somewhat bluntish point. The stigmas protrude almost beyond the end. A faint vein runs the down centre-line of all petals. |
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| 14th July 2007, St Cyrus, Scotland. | Photo: © Pam Murden's Daughter |
| When ripe the stigmas splay into three strips right at the end. |
| 11th July 2011, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Bucks. | Photo: © Phil And Ann Farrer |
| Lower leaves triangular and stalked; stem leaves narrow and half-clasping the stem. |
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Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature :
No relation to : The leaves half-clasp the stem and are narrow. The flowers are one of the most vivid colours of the flowering plants being a brilliant violet colour, and are all clustered at the top of a single shortish hairy stem. It grows in limey areas on grassland. ANY TEXT GOES HERE |
 Campanula (Bellflowers) |
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Bellflower [Campanulaceae]
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